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Missional ecclesiology as basis for a new church order: A case study
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2013 In this contribution the author looks at the ecclesiology and church polity of the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika (NHKA) as a case study. Different approaches to ecclesiology and church polity by different NHKA theologians are examined.
Wim A. Dreyer
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Efesiërs 1:14 en 1:22, 23 as ’n skriftuurlike maksimum-minimum vir die ekklesiologie
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2017 Ephesians 1:14 and 1:22, 23 as a scriptural maximum-minimum for ecclesiology. Against the background of a membership decline in mainstream churches in South Africa and abroad, and conscious of the theological debate in which a missional ecclesiology is ...
Barry J. Van Wyk
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Journal of Religious History, Volume 47, Issue 4, Page 516-537, December 2023., 2023 By the 1970s, Christian missions to Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory were enthusiastic supporters of Indigenous self‐determination, even as they sought to maintain a missionary presence in Aboriginal communities. This article asks how missions continued to seek to influence and direct Aboriginal churches and communities through espousing ...
Laura Michelle Rademaker
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, 2022 Ecclesiology is the study of the church and has two focal points; the one is the historical and doctrinal perspective on the church, and the other is the church as situated in a local context in the sense of the local practices of actual congregations ...
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Church, mission and ethics. Being church with integrity
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016 This article is an exercise in Practical Ecclesiology. The author reflects on church, mission and ethics from historical, hermeneutical and strategic perspectives.
Wim Dreyer
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Μαρτυρια [witness] in John 1�4: Towards an emerging, missional ecclesiology
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2011 Theological investigation of the μαρτυρια[witness] lexeme in John 1 4 contributes significantly towards an understanding of an emerging, missional ecclesiology.
Guillaume H. Smit
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The Use of the Term “DNA” as a Missiological Metaphor in Contemporary Church Narratives [PDF]
, 2016 Missiologists propose that the Church and mission are inseparable as the Church has its very being because there is mission, and it is the Missio Dei which constitutes the Church.
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Verbum et Ecclesia, 2017 The missional church is a new consciousness which has been raised for the missionary sending of the church in the West to be a witness for the Kingdom of God in its own context. The missional church has returned mission to the centre of ecclesiology.
Timothy A. van Aarde
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The priesthood of believers: The forgotten legacy of the reformation
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020 This contribution revisits the priesthood of believers. It is placed within the current discourse on relevant ecclesiologies and ecclesial praxis for 21st-century reformed churches.
Wim A. Dreyer
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From proto-missional to mega-church: A critique of ecclesial ‘growth’ in Korea
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2018 In the last couple of decades, the Korean church experienced a loss of credibility as well as a decrease in membership. The premise of this contribution is that the mega-church phenomenon in Korea contributed to this state of affairs.
Yongsoo Lee, Wim A. Dreyer
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